I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWriting is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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